Monday, April 26, 2010

I have a bunch of extra Brookshire sweepstakes game tickets, and I wanted to know if any one playing the game had some extras they wanted to trade. I am looking for peices 2,3,7,9,13,16,17,19,24,26,28,34,37,46,47... 70. I have extras on all of the other tickets.

I have a bunch of extra Brookshire Sweepstakes game tickets, Dose anyone want to trade?i am trying to find out the numbers of the hard to find tickets. for the atv i only like one and it is #54. do you need this number also. i have #53 and it has a ^ by the number. this is the only one i have with this. iI am giving all my extra tickets to a girl at work who is also playing.

the #'s that i need are 2,3,5,7,8,9,10,13,16,17,19,20,

24,26,28,34,37,40,42,46,48,52,54,

60,63,67,69,71,72,75,Reply:I am new to yahoo and do not know how to get your email address. if some one will tell me how to email you i would appreciate it. i do not have but 1 # 53 Report Abuse

I received a check ($3850) and letter in the mail 4 days ago stating that I had won the lottery. I called the number and the guy told me to place the check in my bank account so I did and after that the money cleared. Now he wants me to take the money to a certain location and give it to someone for clearance fees for my $225,000 check that I will receive in the mail by overnight 24 hour delivery. Should I take him this money or should I just keep it and let bygons be bygons? But I feel as if I didn't have to give them anything and I have entered into so many lotteries that I can not remember them all. Would you go threw with it or would you let it go?

Have you ever won the lottery withTrans Atlantic International Sweepstakes and Lotteries and actually won?Did you buy a lottery ticket?

please forward it to mail-spoof@cc.yahoo-inc.com.Reply:Its a scam!!!! The check appears to clear, you take the money out, then the bank discovers the cheque is fradulent and wants the money back...FROM YOU!!!

DO NOT hand over any money. Phone your bank and explain to them, they will investigate and you can bet your last jellybaby that they will come back with the news that this is a fraud.

I would like to know how legit this company is so pls if know anything about them pls let me know,thank u very much.

Do anyone know anything about Tenth Jackpot International Sweepstakes?Look at the questions I have answered on this site in my info. There are so many winners there could not be enough money to pay them all.There is no International Lottery.This is a Nigeria scam. Yahoo/MSN, U.K. and Australian lotteries, football lotteries from the same counties, Global-Link, World Poverty, Microsoft, Free Lotto, which now seems to have it's own people answering gambling questions on this site claiming they have won which is a total lie, and hundreds more. I am a retired Police Officer that has years of experience investigating Internet scams and frauds. This is an old one. The common link to them getting your email is on line surveys. Yahoo does not give it's stock holders money away nor does it give it's email subscribers address's to lotteries. The only way to win in a lottery is to buy a ticket, if you didn't you could not possibly win. Here is the website of the 17 nation law enforcement task force that investigates cross border Internet crime. You may file a complaint there. www.econsumer.gov. Also go to www.ripoffreport.com and browse complaints and you will find many having the same doubts as yourself about these scams. Below is a typical scam and how they work it. They just go under a thousand different names. They are asking you to send a prepayment to collect your winnings and they want you to send it by a money wire service. Lotteries do not just pick your name out of thin air, and just so happen to have your email also. No Internet service provider gives their email list out to lotteries. If you did not pay to play you could not possibly win.

recieved letter of winning $65000.00 Pacific Player International lotteries,please contact claims agent miss linda strong at 204-951-7582. Second letter came with a check for the amount of $2,470.00 To deposited in my bank account for processing fee,a week later check cleared my bank. I contacted my claims agent over the phone she advise me to wire the balance of $2,341.00 to a Mr Edward Culwell in New York,New York.I called miss linda strong to advise her of the western union confirmation number,to date can not get in touch with linda strong just her voice mail, I know now that it was all a RIP-OFF and now Iam in the hole with $2,470.00 with my bank.... Please send HELP... THANK YOU VERY MUCHReply:If you ever get an email telling you that you won money, delete it.

There are two reasons to have a lottery. One is to take in money from ticket sales, make a profit (for charity and for the organizers), and give back about half the money in prizes.

The other reason is to publicize a company. Something like when McDonald's has a million dollar sweepstakes (that actually only pays about $30,000 per year after tax for 25 years or similar).

Such a promotion is always heavily publicized and requires you to specifically enter the competition.

Those are the two basic ways that money is given away. The former is given to those who PAY to buy a ticket. The latter encourages people to do something, even though it may not be mandatory, it's generally some kind of publicity thing.

Simply picking your email address out of a hat and sending you a million dollars, just makes no sense. There would be no practical or realistic reason why this should ever happen. The company doing it would simply be giving money away for no good reason.

Any time you get an email telling you you won something, they either want you to impart some kind of personal information they can use to rip you off, or they want you to send them some money (taxes on the winnings or some other excuse), just to keep you money.

In any case, unless you actually signed up for a sweepstakes, or paid to enter a lottery it's a con.

I RECIEVED A LETTER IN THE MAIL SAYING I WAS ONE OF EIGHT WINNERS. I CALLLED THE NUMBER ON THE LETTER AND THEY SAID I WOULD HAVE MY FIRST CHECK IN 5-7 DAYS. WHEN I LOOK UP THESE PPL I CAME ACROSS SOME PPL THAT SAID THE HAD GOTTEN A CHECK BUT DIDN'T SAY IF IT WAS A LEGIT CHECK.

Has anyone recieved a check from Liberty Sweepstakes?If you didn't enter a lottery with them, it's not legit. We have had a terrible time convincing my 88 year old mother-in-law of this. She spends her entire Social Security check on supposed lotteries. We have told her over and over again that they are a form of fraud, but she thinks they're such nice people that they wouldn't do it. I called the Secretary of State here in Indiana, they agreed with us, and sent out pamphlets explaining just how the scam works, but we still can't get through to her.Reply:Did you actually enter the sweepstakes? If you didn't, it's probably not legit. This sounds a lot like a "something for nothing" scam. Try contacting the Attorney General's office in your state and ask if they've heard of Liberty Sweepstakes. Don't get burned!Reply:I GOT A CHECK FROM THEM FOR $581,000.00 AND CASHED IT AND IT WENT THROUGH LIKE A CHARM . i BOUGHT SOME GREAT OCEANFRONT PROPERTY IN PHOENIX AND AM NEGOITATING TO BUY THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE ALSO .Reply:Lottery scam letters are sent by email, regular post, Federal Express, DHL, UPS, etc. All available deliveries methods are used. In the US, the letters - along with the envelope they came in, regardless of the delivery method - are to be taken to the nearest Post Office, ATTN: US Postal Inspector. Any fraud delivered within the contiguous United States of America using any official delivery system comes under the offices of the US Postal Inspector General's Fraud Investigation Unit.

As for the documents looking oh-so-real, they're not. Using a computer graphics program, a person can create any kind of document whatsoever. Please remember that unless you can DIRECTLY contact the registered lottery company itself, not some agent, not some fellow on a cell phone, not some person in a country where the lottery is not registered with the gaming board, watch out!

Lastly, always remember - it's not who wrote the letter that makes it a scam, it's what the letter SAYS that makes it a scam.

I know it begins with www.si.com/... but I don't remember what comes after the "/". I saw it listed in the April 30th issue of Sports Illustrated while in a doctor's office but of course, I didn't have a chance to write it down and didn't take it to memory obviously.

What's the website address to enter the flat screen tv sweepstakes from si.com?I looked and looked all over their site and found nothing. Guess you should have written it down. Then, there's always the possibility that the sweepstakes is over.